Thanks to great team effort, the blog about geospatial types is now published[1].
Andrew [1]: https://parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02/13/native-geospatial-types-in-apache-parquet/ On Thu, Feb 5, 2026 at 7:03 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote: > A PR[1] is up to add blog about the Geospatial types to the parquet > website (in https://parquet.apache.org/blog/) > > Any and all feedback is most welcome. > > Thanks Jia and Dewey for driving this. > > Andrew > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/pull/156 > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Jia and Dewey have written a draft post about the new Geospatial types >> added to parquet. I encourage anyone interested to provide comments / >> suggestions on the draft [2] >> >> More details are on the ticket[1]. >> >> Thanks! >> Andrew >> >> >> >> [1]: >> https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148#issuecomment-3776848375 >> [2]: >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JPK0F6Vn4sjXGO4AzrkywOjlj_ybDV_6v0zuaFIIjlk >> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 7:32 AM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The idea of blog posts came up the other day too, so I filed some >>> tickets to hopefully track and organize the effort and help collaboration >>> >>> I think there are at least three proposed blogs in this thread, so I >>> filed three tickets: >>> >>> - Variant[1] >>> - Geospatial[2] >>> - Complex Types[3] >>> >>> Looking forward to seeing these get posted. Let me know how I can help >>> (e.g. figuring out how to actually post them on the site, for example). >>> >>> Andrew >>> >>> [1]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/147 >>> [2]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/148 >>> [3]: https://github.com/apache/parquet-site/issues/149 >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM Aihua Xu <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Agree. We started to write a little bit for variant and I can take >>>> variant blog. >>>> > >>>> > On Oct 2, 2025, at 5:07 PM, Julien Le Dem <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > I was thinking that we should talk more about the new features in >>>> Parquet. >>>> > Specifically, write blog posts about Variant or Geo types. >>>> > How they came to be, what they enable, how they are integrated in the >>>> > ecosystem. >>>> > The Parquet blog is only the release announcements for now ( >>>> > https://parquet.apache.org/blog/) and we can make it an opportunity >>>> to >>>> > spotlight some of the recent additions to the project. >>>> > Contributors welcome. >>>> > Some sources of inspiration: >>>> > https://arrow.apache.org/blog/ >>>> > https://openlineage.io/blog >>>> > https://datafusion.apache.org/blog/ >>>> > What do you think? >>>> >>>
